Improved carpet-stretcher and tack-holder



N Emma sans ,7 FREDERICK W. fJUDD, CE NEWBRITAIN; AssIeNoE To HIMSELE AND EDWARD M. `JUDD, CE NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Lettere .Patent No. 97 ,929, dated December 14, 1869; antedatell December 9, 1869.

1f MPRovED CARPET-ernennen 'AND TACK-HOLDER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. J UDD, of New Britain, in the county of Hartford, and State of Gon- `necticut, have invented and made a new and useful Combined Carpet-Stretcher and Tack-Holder; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and,

exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specitcation, whereiny y Figure lis a plan of said implement', and

Figure 2 is aside View of thesame.

Similar letters denote the saine parts.

A carpet-stretcl1er is a great convenience inputting down carpets, but frequently thecarpet is allowed to draw backivhile the tack is `being applied.` This often results from having to move -the carpet-stretcher out of the way, so asto insert a tack in the part that had been stretched.

My invention consistsin a spring, with a slot at the end' for suspending a tack, in combination withpa car-k pet-stretcher,- so that the tack can be driven into the carpet, the slotted springyieldino(r as thetack is struck by the hammer.

In the drawing-` p a, represents a portion of a. handle, of' any desired -lengthorsize-` i b is the carpet-stretcher, withl teeth in the end.

"c is a notch,`near the centralportiou of the carpetstretcher.

e is a spring, attached at t, and slotted at the end c, so as to suspend a tack, Z, by the head, over the notch c, so that the carpet-stretcher can be'used without the point ofthe tack necessarily coming:r into Contact with the carpet.

VVhveu the tack is to be driven, a. blow from a handhammer causes the tack to penetrate sufficiently to hold in the ioor, the spring e yielding.

The stretcher is then to be drawn back, and the "driving of the tack completed. 

